单词 | shouter |
释义 | † shoutern.1 Obsolete. rare. The master of a ‘shout’ or flat boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of specific type of vessel shouterc1325 patron?a1425 trowman1429 balinger-master1463 Master of the Barge1480 wafter1482 bargemaster1648 trierarch1656 hoyman1666 collier-master1723 country captain1769 slave-captain1808 grocery-captain1816 hide-drogher1841 pentecontarch1851 collier-man1881 c1325 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1808) II. 407 Pour les Gages de ses vij Shouters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). shoutern.2 1. a. One who shouts or cries out loudly; one who acclaims or applauds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > person vociferator1639 bawler1656 shouter1692 vociferant1760 slogan-shouter1940 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > applauder applauder1617 acclamatora1684 plauditor1688 shouter1692 acclaimer1802 cheerer1811 huzzaer1838 ovator1870 1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes i. i. 8 A peal of loud applause rang out, And thin'd the Air, till even the Birds fell down Upon the Shouters Heads. 1820 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1984) XI. 174 The Heroine passed..surrounded with Shouters & vociferous Admirers. 1908 Academy 13 June 878/1 The English labourers in the Papal vineyard..are silent, prayerful persons rather than shouters or sensation-mongers. ΚΠ 1875 Weekly New Mexican 13 Oct. 2/1 The Carleton and Perea ‘shouters’, got up a procession with banners, transparencies and noise. 1904 Rochester (New York) Post-Express 26 May 4 The canvass..was very thorough, Hearst shouters being busily engaged in every city. 2. a. A name applied to some Methodist congregations in the north of Ireland who used to leap and shout in their ecstasies. (Cf. Hampson Mem. Wesley, 1791, II. 75.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > shouter shouter1820 1820 R. Polwhele Introd. Lavington's Enthus. Method. & Papists Introd. p. cxii Of a similar description with the Welsh Jumpers were the Irish Shouters. b. In the West Indies, a member of a Baptist sect influenced by African religious practices. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > sects and groups > [noun] > West Indian shouter1950 1950 Caribbean Q. 2 ii. 17 The Shouters and Shakers..may practise a pseudo Christianity strongly influenced by African cult practices. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) iii. 30 The northern religion did not make much headway except with a small group of converts to the Baptist faith in Toco, a village in the northeastern part of the island. They are called Shouters with some accuracy, for they generated enough excitement and noise to be officially banned. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 906/1 Charismatic leaders frequently organize distinctive local variants of Christianity, such as the Baptist sects graphically termed ‘Shouters’ or ‘Jumpers’. 3. Australian and New Zealand. One who stands drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > call for drink or turn to pay > person who pays shouter1863 1863 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 31 Dec. 4/1 Perhaps some of our readers do not know the extent to which the practice of ‘shouting’, or of inviting to drink at the ‘shouter's’ expense, is carried even here. 1885 Sladen In Cornwall, etc. 156 (title) The sigh of the shouter. 4. One who participates in a shout (shout n.2 1d); a gospel-singer; a type of blues-singer. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > African-American dancing > [noun] > religious dancing > dancer shouter1867 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > shouter or toaster shouter1867 toaster1976 1867 Nation 30 May 433/1 A band, composed of the best singers and of tired shouters stand at the side of the room to ‘base’ the others. 1931 R. W. Gordon in A. T. Smythe et al. Carolina Low-Country 199 The shouters form a circle and proceed around and around in a sort of slow processional. 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 311 In barrel-house vein are his records..with vocals by Joe Turner, then an unspoiled shouter. 1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues ix. 169 Joe Turner..has long been considered the Big Daddy of traditional blues shouters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1325n.21692 |
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